January 21, 2008

International Reporting

For 127 years Sun editors and staff members have brought news to the Cornell and Ithaca communities, covering Cornell’s campuses, the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County, as well as publishing stories about national and international news. While The Sun has travelled to Washington, D.C. to cover rallies that Cornell students were attending, written stories and columns from abroad programs and covered sporting events all over the country, this winter break marked the first time that The Sun sent reporters to another country to report on universities, media, life and culture — as well as Cornell alumni and the University’s historic and contemporary ties to that nation. Editor in Chief Jonny Lieberman ’08, Managing Editor Rebecca Shoval ’08, Associate Arts and Entertainment Editor Rebecca Weiss ’09 and Senior Photographer Matt Hintsa ’10 travelled to Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing earlier this month, where they met with students, professors and administrators from various universities, Cornell alumni and members of the media and toured those cities with Cornell students from China and other hosts.

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This is the first in a series of articles examining the positions of front-running presidential primary candidates.
With Super Tuesday right around the corner, the New York State primaries could prove to be an uphill battle for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). On Feb. 5 he goes up against Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) who is currently leading in California, New Jersey and Florida for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, according to the latest Rasmussen report released yesterday.
Coming off the heels of a win in the Iowa caucus, Obama projects himself as a candidate for change, a buzzword that has become talk show fodder from both sides of the political spectrum.

Wegmans recently announced that it would no longer carry tobacco products in an attempt to stop cigarettes from appearing as a grocery staple, especially for the sake of children.
Next to the cigarettes, which reside behind a counter, a sign reads:
“Beginning Feb. 10 we will no longer sell cigarettes and other tobacco products. Between now and then, remaining inventory will be sold, and some brands are likely to be out of stock. We have come to this decision after thinking about the role smoking plays in peoples’ health.”
Wegmans is not alone in its commitment to stop selling tobacco products. Target has not sold any tobacco products since 1996, and many health food grocery stores have never sold any tobacco products.